Pump attachment



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PUMP ATTACHMENT. No. 530,193. Patented Dec. 4,1894.

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PUMP ATTACHMENT.

No. 530,193.. Patented Dee. 4,1894.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFONGS MEUSER, OF LONGWOOD, FLORIDA.

PUMP ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 530,193, dated.December 4, 1894.

Application filed February 11, 1893. Serial NOABLB'M. (No model.)

.Zo aZZ whom it mag/concern:

Be it known thatI, ALFONGS MEUSER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Longwood, in the county of Orangeand State of Florida, haveinvented a certain new, useful, and valuable Improvement in PumpAttachments, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

My invention has relation to attachments for pumps, by means of whichpower is economized in two waysz-first, by enabling speed to beincreased and, second, by decreasing jar and friction.

In the accompanying draWingsz-Figure 1, is a side View of a pump havingmy invention attached thereto. Fig. 2, is a sectional view of theattachment.

The invention is described as follows:

It consists of a primary air chamber 1, connected by a suitable pipe 2,with the outlet of the pump 3. Said pipe 2, is preferably horizontal andconnects with a perpendicular pipe 4-. Thus the primary air chamber 1,is connected with pipe 4:. Pipe 4, is provided with a secondary airchamber 5, suitably connected. The outlet ofthe chamber 5, is above thetop of the chamber 2. Pipe 4, is also provided with a check valve 6,which islocated between the connection of air chamber 5, and theconnection of air chamber 1. This valve allows the fluid to pass up butdoes not permit its return. The pipe 2,may

be provided with the draw off cock 7. As the piston in the pump risesthe water or other fluid is forced into the primary air chamber 1, thenup through the valve 6, into a second ary air chamber 5, and up out ofpipe 4. As the fluid enters the air chambers the air therein iscompressed. At the end of the stroke of the piston the check valve 6,closes and takes the weight of the superincumbent water off the pumpvalve and while the piston is descending the air compressed in thesecondary air chamber 5 will expand and force the water in an even andcontinuous flow out of the pipe 4. As there will be less water weight onthe air in chamber 5, expansion will take place first in that chamber;and when this pressure is sufficiently exhausted the valve 6, will riseand the expansion of air in chamber 1, will act on the new supply ofwater, furnished it by the return stroke of the piston in the pump.

This attachment may be applied to any style of pump, the one shown inthe drawings being used simply as an example.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is

An attachment for pumps consisting of a pipe adapted to connect with thepump, primary and secondary air chambers connected to said pipe, a checkvalve located in said pipe between the connections of the said airchambers, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof Iaffix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFONGS MEUSER.

I Witnesses:

J NO. N. SEARCY, WM. B. Y. WILKIE.

